Academic interests:

My professional interests are in the areas of teacher professional learning and school leadership. I have a special interest in teachers’ work with writing in and across the disciplines in secondary schools, and ways teachers and school leaders work with collective knowledge building in the organization.

PhD-project:

Collective knowledge building among teachers in upper secondary schools: writing across the disciplines
The project draws upon an intervention study where experts from the University cooperate with a group of teachers with the purpose of promoting writing in and across the disciplines. Special attention is paid to how the teachers make use of the resources, and how they explore their knowledge and practice connected to their work with student’s texts. The research questions are: How is professional knowledge negotiated? What kind of professional knowledge is at play? How do external experts and school leadership contribute to the processes? The project is designed as a case study with observations, sound recordings and interviews as main methods. The study investigates teachers` knowledge development at work place in a socio-cultural perspective.
PhD Programme Institution: Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo